Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . h cross lines,over which the effigy bearers stand in the course of the ceremonials. *The general character of the Wdwac is described in my article in the Bulletin of the Essex Insti-tute, where certain of the masks madi- use of in it are figured The Racing Katcina performed atthis time was, however, much more complicated, and a description of it would be a digression fromthe subject of this article. PRELIMINARIES OF THE A. 299 TAWIKKATCINA The Pawikkatcina, which 1 observed at Sitcomovi in 1
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . h cross lines,over which the effigy bearers stand in the course of the ceremonials. *The general character of the Wdwac is described in my article in the Bulletin of the Essex Insti-tute, where certain of the masks madi- use of in it are figured The Racing Katcina performed atthis time was, however, much more complicated, and a description of it would be a digression fromthe subject of this article. PRELIMINARIES OF THE A. 299 TAWIKKATCINA The Pawikkatcina, which 1 observed at Sitcomovi in 1892, had cer-tain differences from any abbreviated Katcina dance wliich I have yetdescribed, and illustrated the ceremonial reception of these personagesafter they had visited another jjueblo. A priest of Sitcomovi suggestedthat his fellow villagers should send a delegation of young men toCipanlovi to return a dance with which they had previously beenhonored by the latter pueblo. Accordingly the masks were painted andthe preliminary ceremonials took place in one of the Sitcomovi kivas,. Fig. 43—Mask of (front view). those who were to participate in the ceremonial beginning their workon the Lyth of June. The visitors danced all day of the 27th at Cipaulovi,rested on the 28th, and continued their dance on the 29th at ceremonials on their return at the trail approaching Sitcomovi tookplace on June 28th, an hour before sunset. This dance differed very little from that of other Katcinas, to whichattention has hitherto been directed. There were twenty-three Katci- Journal of American Ptlinology and Archaeology, vol. ll, No. 1. 300 TUSAYAN KATCINAS [ETH. ANN. 15 nas and five ? Katcinaniaiias, and the masks of both are illustrated iufigures 43, 44, and 45, while one of the staffs which they bore is repre-sented in figure 4C. They sang five songs called Omowuh (cloud),Yoivikka (swift), Pakwa (frog), Pawykia (duck), and Patzro (quail).An interesting feature
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